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Pierre Corneille

Overview

Pierre Corneille ( kor-NAY, French: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about the medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.

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Philosophers who discussed Pierre Corneille

• Seneca the Younger
• Michel Serres
• Jean-Marie Guyau

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• French language
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• Voltaire
• William Shakespeare
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Literary criticism
• Jean Racine
• Tragedy
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• Classicism
• Tragicomedy
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Place in the tradition

Part of Classicism.

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